Friday 20 July 2012

Cosmic horror trivia

Recently, my brother posted on his Facebook wall that he was in the mood for a game of Call of Cthulhu. And October Farm blogged a spaghetti meatballs recipe, which reminded me of two things: 1) that Lovecraft loved spaghetti meatballs (true and that we often had spaghetti bolognese or some other kind fo paste before playing a game of Call of Cthulhu. I mentioned the role playing game before, among other times here. Anyway, this blog post and my brother's wall post made me think of the game and got me in the mood for it.

Little details like this, that made me remember the game. We used to play during summer, mainly, especially cool evenings and rainy afternoons. I remember the spaghetti bolognese we often made for the supper before. Our characters (well, I was the Game Master but they were still "my" characters) were eating plenty of pasta, lasagne, spaghetti and canelloni. This was for two reasons: one, because of Lovecraft's own food preferences, two, because it fitted the time period and the characters (one character, played by PJ, was an Italian American gangster, so the menu brought some kind of authenticity). And well, Cthulhu's tentacle are a bit like, you know, spaghetti.

4 comments:

PJ said...

Le dessert préféré Lovecraft: la tarte aux bleuets (l'été), "à la mode". Raison de plus pour jouer chez nous, et manger quelque chose à propos.

Guillaume said...

J'ai toujours voulu faire ça: des soirées de Donjons ou de Cthulhu avec souper de circonstances. Une bonne partie de Call of Cthulhu en fin d'été, c'est très plaisant.

jaz@octoberfarm said...

the blog tech has written everything that lovecraft has ever written. kafka too. i have him on kafka though because i had to read him in german! the blog tch has read everything!!!

Guillaume said...

I read a fair deal of Lovecraft, but not everything he wrote.